The long-term effects (after 3 to 5 years) of remedial reading instruction were examined. Comparison was made on reading achievement scores and on achievement ratios between a group of 16 former remedial reading clinic students, aged 12 to 20, and a matched group which did not receive remedial instruction. In addition, 45 former remedial readers…

This second year volume of a 3-year course in Chinese includes a textbook, vocabulary, and character lists. A student workbook has also been designed (see FL 002 777 ). The text provided dialogues and practice in vocabulary, translation, questions, writing, and language patterns. Ideas for homework are also included. The book is divided into…

This workbook accompanies the second volume (FL 002 776) of the Chinese text used in the Washington Foreign Language Program. It is organized according to the lessons in the companion textbook and provides vocabulary, substitution, pattern, transformation, translation, and expansion drills, and question and answer practice. For related documents…

In an effort to reduce the number of dropouts in a Florence, South Carolina school system, an experimental English curriculum focusing on reading skills and attitudes toward school was created. The participating students were uninterested in education beyond high school and accustomed to low achievement in school work. Learning activities in the…

An individualized, nongraded Title III/ESEA reading program to be used with children at kindergarten through third-grade levels has been developed at Moreland School in Moreland, Idaho. Using team teaching and individual and small group instruction, the program seeks to develop in the child prereading experiences, language experiences, expanded…

A 21-day unit on the history and development of the English language, as taught to a twelfth grade class, is provided as a teaching guide. Each of the class sessions is described as to objective, materials, procedure, and evaluation. A schedule for each of the four weeks of the unit, three contract choices for the student to choose among and thus…

Sixty-four Spanish lessons for use in a televised beginning college Spanish program are presented in this text. Lessons include exercises, verb study, conversation, vocabulary development, and grammatical analysis. Fundamental to the course is the belief that mastery of grammar can only be achieved through conversation. As a consequence, lessons…

For 6 years, three intensive reading instructional teams (IRIT's) provided intensive small-group reading instruction to school children within Hartford's validated target areas. A total of 363 children were assisted by the overall program. The centers also provided facilities for the diagnosis of reading problems, for team teaching, language…

The purposes of this booklet are to acquaint both mathematics teachers and reading teachers with some skills which students need for effectively reading the language of mathematics and to provide sample activities which may be used as an integral part of the mathematics class, in an effort to help students develop those skills. Since mathematics…

Concludes that both able and less able eighth grade readers who read text versions in which key concepts and the relations between them had been explained thoroughly learned significantly more word meanings than did students who read any of the other versions. (FL)

Summarizes five theories explaining the relationship between word knowledge and comprehension of text in native language acquisition and explores possible implications for second language researchers and practitioners. (Author/CB)

Subjects in the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study included 2,900 hospitalized and 11,000 nonhospitalized children. Data analysis shows associations between length of preschool hospitalization and vocabulary at ages 5 and 10, and reading and mathematics attainment at age 10. Associations were also found between hospitalization frequency and…

Discusses English as a second language (ESL) theory as it relates to the use of literature, and presents a four-step approach to any literary text that obliges ESL students to take responsibility for building their own successively more complex schemata. This approach is illustrated with Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." (Author/LMO)

Considers current research on reading in a second language from five points of view: (1) the reader's role in light of new models of language and textual meaning; (2) revised definitions of textual meaning and reader processing; (3) reader processing of schemata; (4) relationship between second-language competency and reader strategies; and (5)…

Reviews research on the relationship between children's television viewing and their school achievement and describes learning activities related to television that are designed to teach vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension; promote independent reading; and encourage students to become more critical viewers. (Author/EM)